They’re doing a job on stay-at-home moms.
Sticks and stones may break some bones, but the withering words of men — and a handful of ladies — calling full-time housewives “liars” and “lazy” for claiming the domestic job is hard, can cut deep.
“To all the stay-at-home moms, I feel like you’re lying,” spat Cass — an alleged work-from-home, stay-at-home dad of a newborn — in a controversial clip.
“I stay at home and take care of my daughter, and while I’m taking care of my one-year-old daughter, I can give her three meals a days, change her on time, get her into her naps, playtime, arts and crafts,” Cass, from Colorado Springs, Col., continued, “and still make sure the entire place is clean — I can clean the entire apartment while watching her before 12:00 or 1:00 p.m.”
“When does being a stay-at-home mom become hard?.”
It’s a question that comes as a black eye to overwhelmed, overworked women worldwide.
The stress, exhaustion and isolation of round-the-clock housework and mothering — the cooking, cleaning, child-wrangling and more — is a plague on a whopping 62% burned out parents who feel unsupported by their partners, per trending research.
That lack of help and acknowledgment can trigger feels of loneliness and resentment — even towards the kids.
Alicia Murray, a New York mom of two small boys, recently admitted to “dreading” the thought of being stuck in the house with her brood all day.
“[I’m] tired to the point of where a nap, good sleep or coffee doesn’t fix it,” the millennial moaned.
And the mind-numbing, back-breaking work of a stay-at-home mom — namely in major cities such as NYC and Los Angeles — often doesn’t offer adequate pay, according to leading data.
A global study found that Big Apple-based homemakers do roughly $4,700 in family chores every 30 days, while the ladies of the house in LA tackle approximately $4,600 worth of hard labor within the same timeframe.
Still, internet trolls — including fathers who claim to have fulfilled the role of Mr. Mom — consider the thankless job a cushy gig that shouldn’t warrant much bellyaching from gals on the grind.
“You’re gonna trigger all the lazy moms with this one,” teased an instigator beneath Cass’ TikTok post.
“Being a stay-at-home mom is the easiest job in the world,” argued a smug male commenter.
“It’s not hard, they make it hard,” echoed an equally unsympathetic detractor.
“I was stay at home dad for 5 years with 3 kids. Easiest job I ever had,” a separate man bragged. “Cooked, cleaned, laundry, clean sheets every week, hiking, beach, sidewalk chalk, diapers, music anytime I wanted — it was like vacation every day.”
A faction of stay-at-home mothers even agreed, leaving comments like, “Literally it’s only a burden if you DON’T want to be a SAHM,” and “Yes, as a SAHM of 5, almost 6 [kids]…it’s not hard at all.”
Empowered by the support of those women, the cyber savages continued their merciless attack.
“It isn’t difficult. They just love to play the victim,” barked a brute.
“It’s easy but no one wants to admit that it’s easy because it makes them feel like they’re doing less,” another critic wrote. “It’s still very very important work, but they’re upselling it.”
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